Proof The Economy Has Recovered: Job Seeker Turns Down Job At Morgan Stanley's Brooklyn Office Because "It's Like The Jersey Shore"

Until recently, we had no idea Morgan Stanley has a back office
operation in Brooklyn just off the 4,5 train after the Bowling
Green stop.

Then we spoke to someone who's been there on an interview. He was
hugely critical of it and is not taking a job there (we aren't
sure he has even been offered one) for two reasons:

1. "It's a really crappy office."

He says, first of all, "there are no hot receptionists," only an
angry security guard who barks to the guys upstairs about a
visitor's presence through a walkie-talkie.

His further evidence is "the furniture looks like it's falling
apart."

Then there's the second reason.

2. "It looks like an office in the Jersey Shore."

We called Morgan Stanley's Brooklyn office and asked them to
defend themselves against this borderline racist
characterization. The person we spoke to just started cracking up
and said: "That is not the case."

He admitted it's horribly superficial of him, but he says he just
wants to work with "attractive" people.

What this really shows is how the spirit of desperation has
departed from financial job seekers. A year ago, it would have
been hard to imagine a job seeker rejecting an office of a
prominent Wall Street firm because he didn't like how people
dressed.